The book also presents ?Abd al-Karim Khan Jhajjariâ s impressions of mid-nineteenth-century Britain by analyzing his Urdu travelogue, Siyahatnama (Book of Travels), and his Persian universal history, Mirâ at-i-gitinuma (World Reflecting Mirror), both housed in the British Library.
The book also presents ?Abd al-Karim Khan Jhajjariâ s impressions of mid-nineteenth-century Britain by analyzing his Urdu travelogue, Siyahatnama (Book of Travels), and his Persian universal history, Mirâ at-i-gitinuma (World Reflecting Mirror), both housed in the British Library.
Gulfishan Khan is a historian of Medieval and Early Modern South Asian History. She earned her doctorate from the University of Oxford. She is a recipient of Commonwealth Scholarship (SOAS) and Bahari Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford. She was also a Fulbright Fellow/Associate at Harvard University. She is the former Chairperson and Coordinator of the Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University, India.
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* List of Illustrations 9 * Preface 11 * Introduction 17 * Part I: historiography, biography, gender discourses and interfaith dialogue * 1. The Indo-Persian Historiography: Some New Trends * 2. On Some Indo-Persian Tazkiras * 3. Intellectual Climate of the Deccan in the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century 113 * 4. Sha?h Wali? Alla?h al-Dihlavi?: A Traditionist's Perspective of Gender Relations 137 * 5. Social Status of Women in Medieval India: A Comparative Perspective 165 * 6. Indo-Persianate Elite and their Perceptions of Christianity: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey 190 * Part II: perceiving the colonialism * 7. Indo-Persian Elite's Perceptions of the Western Expansion in the East * 9. Muhammad Abdullah: A Survey of Routes to Russia and China via the Central Asian Khanates 326 * 10. Indo-Persian Relations during the Eighteenth Century: Shushtari Family - A Case Study 336 * Part III: literary cross-culture encounters and emergence of orientalism versus occidentalism * 11. Khwa?ja Shams al-Din Muh?ammad H?a?fiz? Shi?ra?zi? and the Early British Romantics 353 * 12. Indo-Persian Scholarship and the Formation of Orientalism 425 * 13. Western Orientalists' Representations of the Pre-Mughal Indo-Persian Literature: A Reappraisal 496 * Part IV: the mid-nineteenth century perceptions of europe and the wider world * 14. Indian Muslim Perceptions of the West during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: ?Abd al-Kari?m Kha?n 'Mushta?q' Jhajjari (1839-41) 527 * 15. Perceptions of Western Techno-scientific Progress: ?Abd al-Kari?m Kha?n 'Mushta?q' Jhajjari - A Visitor to Britain (1840-41) 589 * Bibliography 625 * Illustration * Credits 663 * Index 667
* List of Illustrations 9 * Preface 11 * Introduction 17 * Part I: historiography, biography, gender discourses and interfaith dialogue * 1. The Indo-Persian Historiography: Some New Trends * 2. On Some Indo-Persian Tazkiras * 3. Intellectual Climate of the Deccan in the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century 113 * 4. Sha?h Wali? Alla?h al-Dihlavi?: A Traditionist's Perspective of Gender Relations 137 * 5. Social Status of Women in Medieval India: A Comparative Perspective 165 * 6. Indo-Persianate Elite and their Perceptions of Christianity: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey 190 * Part II: perceiving the colonialism * 7. Indo-Persian Elite's Perceptions of the Western Expansion in the East * 9. Muhammad Abdullah: A Survey of Routes to Russia and China via the Central Asian Khanates 326 * 10. Indo-Persian Relations during the Eighteenth Century: Shushtari Family - A Case Study 336 * Part III: literary cross-culture encounters and emergence of orientalism versus occidentalism * 11. Khwa?ja Shams al-Din Muh?ammad H?a?fiz? Shi?ra?zi? and the Early British Romantics 353 * 12. Indo-Persian Scholarship and the Formation of Orientalism 425 * 13. Western Orientalists' Representations of the Pre-Mughal Indo-Persian Literature: A Reappraisal 496 * Part IV: the mid-nineteenth century perceptions of europe and the wider world * 14. Indian Muslim Perceptions of the West during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: ?Abd al-Kari?m Kha?n 'Mushta?q' Jhajjari (1839-41) 527 * 15. Perceptions of Western Techno-scientific Progress: ?Abd al-Kari?m Kha?n 'Mushta?q' Jhajjari - A Visitor to Britain (1840-41) 589 * Bibliography 625 * Illustration * Credits 663 * Index 667
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